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No-Tilling, Cereal Rye Handles Saturated Soils, Improves Stands

No-tilling and planting green into living covers is the right formula to help Frank Martin improve the tilth of his shallow, claypan soils and get better planting results.
By John Dobberstein posted on August 4, 2019 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Water Management
Frank Martin likes to keep things simple. He uses older combines with no yield monitors and he isn’t into using a lot of precision mapping on his 800-acre farm.
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Putting Quorum Sensing to Work in Your No-Tilled Soils

No-tillers must embrace diversity in plants and soil microbes to unlock the power of quorum sensing, improve ag production and deal with climate change, says Christine Jones.
By Angela Lovell posted on August 1, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management
If you've ever been to a meeting that requires a quorum — a minimum number of representatives attending in order to make a decision, you’re on the way to understanding “quorum sensing” as it relates to soil health.
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When Dealing with Phosphorus and Nitrate Losses, Many Long-Term No-Till Benefits Are Being Challenged as Researchers Take a More Serious Look at Water Quality

By Frank Lessiter posted on July 10, 2019 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health, Water Management
For years, growers in northwest Ohio have battled claims that farm runoff of phosphorus (P) is the cause of the extensive algae blooms that develop most years during the summer months in western Lake Erie.
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Small Start, Big Success with No-Tilling

A minor victory in a small field grew to major success farmwide for Bob Kissel, as no-till practices have reduced erosion and improved soil tilth and nutrient cycling on his central Indiana operation.
By John Dobberstein posted on May 30, 2019 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health, Water Management
Bob Kissel remembers the moment he decided to start no-tilling his crops: it was 30 years ago as he was custom harvesting a 20-acre field intensively farmed with soybeans and worked with plows every year.
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